Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
- Robin Morgan

Knowledge itself is power.
- Francis Bacon

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
- Thomas Troward

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise you own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
- John Burroughs

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- John Lehman

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Douglas Adams,
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
- J. Martin Kohe

Abuse of power comes as no surprise.
- Jenny Holzer

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
- John F. Kennedy

The reputation of power is power.
- Thomas Hobbes

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
- Edmund Burke

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.
- Unknown

The power to destroy a planet is insignificant when compared to the power of the Force.
- Darth Vader

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)

Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
- Bill Clinton

All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) French author

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
- Bryce Courtenay

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The measure of the man is what he does with power.
- Pittacus

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.
- Thucyclides

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
- Robert Frost

No extraordinary power should be lodged in any one individual.
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Power does not corrupt men; but fools, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- George Bernard Shaw

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
- Adlai Stevenson

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women!
- Homer Simpson

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Steve Droke